Bragging About Your Wages On Social Media Is Just Dumb!

[olroadbeech]

Real smart.

National story on MSN shows UPS drivers on Tik Tok and other social media bragging about making
$40 an hour and "the beauty of it , nobody knows"

how stupid can you be???

You just handed management a TANK of ammunition in
2023 negotiations.

 

[Box Handler of Dallas]

How exactly is that ammunition? Promoting how well paid our drivers are is a perfect recruiting tool, especially with peak right around the corner.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Real smart.

National story on MSN shows UPS drivers on Tik Tok and other social media bragging about making
$40 an hour and "the beauty of it , nobody knows"

how stupid can you be???

You just handed management a TANK of ammunition in
2023 negotiations.

Especially when a majority of UPS Union members make half of that.

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

Real smart.

National story on MSN shows UPS drivers on Tik Tok and other social media bragging about making
$40 an hour and "the beauty of it , nobody knows"

how stupid can you be???

You just handed management a TANK of ammunition in
2023 negotiations.

It’ll get lost in stories about drivers passing out on porches from the heat.

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

Real smart.

National story on MSN shows UPS drivers on Tik Tok and other social media bragging about making
$40 an hour and "the beauty of it , nobody knows"

how stupid can you be???

You just handed management a TANK of ammunition in
2023 negotiations.

They probably just topped out that day of making the video.

 

[olroadbeech]

How exactly is that ammunition? Promoting how well paid our drivers are is a perfect recruiting tool, especially with peak right around the corner.

During the 97 strike UPS was crowing how well paid drivers were trying to sway public opinion against us.
Fortunately it backfired.

I don't think the public would react the same this time that drivers that are working max hours are
making $140,000.00 a year plus another $40,000.00 or more in bennies .

 

[MECH-lift]

$40 an hour is a joke

 

[G.V. Rush]

During the 97 strike UPS was crowing how well paid drivers were trying to sway public opinion against us.
Fortunately it backfired.

I don't think the public would react the same this time that drivers that are working max hours are
making $140,000.00 a year plus another $40,000.00 or more in bennies .

Yeah but $140,000/year is working 12-13 hours EVERY day. And some of that is forced. I don’t think the public will be 100% onboard or not with a single issue such as pay. Many of the issues that are going on now heavily outweighs the perception of our wage. The pandemic really showed the public how “important” we are.

 

[wilberforce15]

Yeah but $140,000/year is working 12-13 hours EVERY day. And some of that is forced. I don’t think the public will be 100% onboard or not with a single issue such as pay. Many of the issues that are going on now heavily outweighs the perception of our wage. The pandemic really showed the public how “important” we are.

People need to stop calling this a six-figure job. It is an $80,000 job with tens of thousands of overtime

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

People need to stop calling this a six-figure job. It is an $80,000 job with tens of thousands of overtime

If you are a top rate RPCD driver you can make around 85k with zero overtime.

 

[wilberforce15]

If you are a top rate RPCD driver you can make around 85k with zero overtime.

Correct. That's what I just said.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Correct. That's what I just said.

And who only works 8 hours a day as a driver?

 

[wilberforce15]

And who only works 8 hours a day as a driver?

Nobody does. But you're missing the entire point. It is an $80,000 job with tens of thousands of overtime. It's almost like I just said exactly that.

 

[Driver7906]

Many UPSers let the money go to their heads. Stay humble and grateful. 99.9% of our workforce aren’t qualified to make this kind of income anywhere else.

 

[wilberforce15]

An actual six-figure job pays you six figures for reasonable hours. This is not a six-figure job but it reaches six figures with unreasonable hours.

 

[DELACROIX]

Real smart.

National story on MSN shows UPS drivers on Tik Tok and other social media bragging about making
$40 an hour and "the beauty of it , nobody knows"

how stupid can you be???

You just handed management a TANK of ammunition in
2023 negotiations.

What does a teacher or nurse make with over 20 years in working in a major city.

You are forgetting the attribution rate for every UPS Union position, more prone to disability and injuries.

40 bucks an hour with one income is lower middle class.

What do you think?

 

[Wally]

It’ll get lost in stories about drivers passing out on porches from the heat.

All 3 of them?

Anyway, in the event of possibly labor disruptions, the company will cite the true top compensation for drivers. That number will include pension and insurance contributions. They do that to portray the union as greedy. Not any different that the old standby "record profits" the union always resorts to.

 

[wilberforce15]

What does a teacher or nurse make with over 20 years in working in a major city.

You are forgetting the attribution rate for every UPS Union position, more prone to disability and injuries.

40 bucks an hour with one income is lower middle class.

What do you think?

The median household wage in the U.S. is 67k.

A driver makes 80k by himself before overtime.

It's not even close to being lower middle class, if you're above the median household on a single wage.

80k is lower middle class. LOLOL

 

[Wally]

The median household wage in the U.S. is 67k.

A driver makes 80k by himself before overtime.

It's not even close to being lower middle class, if you're above the median household on a single wage.

80k is lower middle class. LOLOL

It is in my state.

 

[wilberforce15]

It is in my state.

Yes, we all know that expensive places exist.
And we all know they're irrelevant if you want to claim a wage is lower middle class.
Nationally, it's not just above that line.

It's above the median by itself on a single wage.

Nobody cares if you're from an expensive place. Should everyone here chime in and say "That average doesn't speak to me!!@!!"

Nobody cares. We are not talking about you. We are talking about the wage.